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Re: Fuji S2 & Sigma 8mm Photoshop Action

Subject: Re: Fuji S2 & Sigma 8mm Photoshop Action
From: Photoboy <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:40:38 +0300

Eric-

These shots were taken at 1/3 second @ f8; ISO 100.

The JPGs straight from the camera are not tack sharp - with the Sigma 8mm. They can, however, be made to look great with proper sharpening. I assume better results would come with RAW files, but I haven't gone there too much. I generally stay around 5.6-8. I did a focus/sharpness test using 4, 5.6, 8, & 11 and didn't notice much difference between the different apertures.

This is definitely not the lens to judge the camera by, though. For all it's quirks, I think the S2 is simply fantastic.

Wouldn't I prefer a Nikkor 8mm/2.8? Sure, but for $450 the Sigma is a lot more realistic and definitely gets the job done. You only need to look at the high-res Sigma samples at panoramas.dk to be sure of that.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh3/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=179374&is=REG

-Michael

At 1:40 PM -0400 7/10/03, Eric Gerds wrote:

I have been considering a Fuji S2 & Sigma 8mm.

What aperture / ISO/ shutter are you using for the pictures you posted? Are
you satisfied
with the sharpness of the images? Do they get much more blurry when you use
wider
aperture? I am curious how good the Sigma 8mm is. I think Jook uses Fuji S2
with Nikon 8mm
(perhaps not a fair comparison). Is it true that when you stop down the
aperture, you get the
sharpest images? Newbie questions, I know...

Eric

----- Original Message -----
From: "Photoboy" <email@hidden>
To: <email@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:33 PM
Subject: Fuji S2 & Sigma 8mm Photoshop Action

 I made a custom Photoshop action which takes 6 images shot with the
 Fuji S2 & Sigma 8mm Fisheye Lens and turns them into an
 Equirectangular image using the Panorama Tools PS plug-in.

 I am far from an expert in the mysterious ways of PTools, but I
 wanted to share this with the lists. After all, everything I know is
 from these lists and the links to which they lead. Of course, because
 I don't understand PTools that well, I could very well be duplicating
 features which are already in PTools but which I don't know how to
 use. We'll see.

 There are links to sample images which can be used with the action,
 in case anyone without the above-mentioned camera/lens combination in
 their toolkit wants to play with it.

 If anyone out there is using this gear for cubic panos, I would love
 to hear about your methodology and the extent to which you are able
 to approach perfection in your automated stitching.

 Hardware and shooting summary:
 Sigma 8mm AF Fisheye lens on Fuji S2 body mounted on Kaidan QPIII Pro

Bracket.

 Camera set to 3024.
 Six images at 60 degrees in one row.

 Here it is:
 http://iphotographics.com/qtvr/ptools_action/

 -Michael
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	>Fuji S2 & Sigma 8mm Photoshop Action (From: Photoboy <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Fuji S2 & Sigma 8mm Photoshop Action (From: "Eric Gerds" <email@hidden>)

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